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Welcome to MotorCities National Heritage Area (MotorCities), where you can Experience Everything Automotive! We invite you to join us as we take a drive down memory lane, gaze into the future and share with you an amazing automotive journey.

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:28

Body by Fisher: A Standard of Excellence in Pontiac

By the time the Fisher brothers formed Fisher Body Company in Detroit in 1908, they had adapted their carriage-making to the needs of automobile bodies…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:40

Notable Neighbors in the Franklin Boulevard Historic District

Lawyers, bankers, doctors and publishers lived along this beautiful "Boulevard of Roses" in the late 1800s. The Franklin Boulevard neighborhood was designated Pontiac's first historic…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:57

Powerplant of the National Economy

Detroit has more Industrial and Mechanical Engineers than any other metropolitan region in America. Advancements in computer modeling, materials, mass production and vertical integration are…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:08

Pontiac's Early Carriage Industry

By 1850, several builders of "horse-drawn" vehicles and carriage-makers soon spread throughout Pontiac and became a major industry by 1900 at a time when Michigan…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:13

Rapid Transformation: Bold Moves in a Changing Industry

Albert North and Harry Hamilton relocated their Pontiac Spring & Wagon Works to larger premises in 1899 to boost their output of carriages, wagons, and…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:17

Downtown Pontiac Draws a Crowd

Pontiac was named for the venerable Native American Chief Pontiac of the Odawas. It's core was the place where people from the region gathered to…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:24

Outstanding Architecture in Pontiac's Commercial Historic District

Pontiac was one of Michigan's first cities to develop outside of Detroit however fire consumed much of its core in 1840. The downtown was rebuilt…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:30

The Urgent Need for Autoworker Housing

Housing was in short supply and threatened the growth of the industry, so to attract and retain labor, General Motors built dormitories and bunkhouses near…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:39

Pontiac's Automotive History

By 1907, 77 percent of Pontiac's manufacturing workforce was producing vehicles. By 1910 General Motors had become the dominant employer here and remained such for…

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:53

Building Bodies at Pontiac's O.J. Beaudette Company

Oliver Joseph Beaudette learned woodcraft as a young apprentice in Michigan's logging frontier of Bay City before starting his carriage business in 1893. In 1909…

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